Original Code-Breakers Daily Sessions: Year 1

The Daily Sessions book provides a weekly overview and five 10-15 minute sessions for each week. Resources are indicated for each session, and assessment materials are provided at the end of each term.

Code Breakers is a synthetic phonics programme that teaches phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences (PGCs) in a systematic, child-friendly fashion. It covers all the pre-requisite skills for reading – sequencing, sound identification, reproduction and discrimination – in a structured scheme of word-level work. The programme is based on extensive research on the frequency of PGCs, which ensures that these are taught in the order that children are most likely to meet them.

New Code-Breakers can be completed in four terms and is recommended for most schools in England, where there is pressure to reach a particular standard for the Phonics test at the end of Year 1. The original Code-Breakers takes a slower pace.